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The museum in the old boardinghouse in Asheville, N.C., where Thomas Wolfe grew up and then celebrated in his classic American epics, including ''Look Homeward, Angel'' and ''You Can't Go Home Again,'' which had been damaged by a fire in 1998, has...

June 6, 2004, Sunday

HIGHLIGHTS THOMAS WOLFE HOUSE REOPENS -- The boyhood home of Thomas Wolfe, a National Historic Landmark that was burned by an arsonist on July 24, 1998, is to reopen to the public this weekend. Originally operated as a boarding house by Wolfe's...

Flames gorged on Julia Wolfe's prim dining room in the family boarding house that her son Thomas lampooned as the forlorn Dixieland in ''Look Homeward, Angel.'' They devoured the massive Eastlake mantelpiece and Mission chairs and tables, melted the...

June 5, 2003, Thursday

To the Editor: I was surprised that Rick Mashburn, in ''What's Doing in Asheville'' (Sept. 8), made no mention of Thomas Wolfe. His sometime homestead, his mother's boarding house, was a prime tourist attraction when I visited 11 years ago. It...

September 29, 2002, Sunday

Unlike most newly published novels, ''O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life'' comes with an introduction, a discussion of the manuscript and typescript, and a brief essay on editorial policy. That is because ''O Lost'' is the original version of Thomas...

In 1929 Thomas Wolfe, big, bombastic and unkempt, strode into the literary world with a huge novel about the making of a genius: himself. ''Look Homeward, Angel,'' Faustian in its ambition, was about Eugene Gant, Wolfe's alter ego, and his...

Thomas Wolfe was a long-winded playwright before he took to writing long-winded novels, which he did at least in part because he couldn't get anyone to produce his work for the stage. ''Welcome to Our City,'' a play he wrote while in graduate school...